Name: Riley-Jo Charlotte Daughtery
Date of Birth: August 9 2037
Age: 34
Years attended Hogwarts (or other school): Attended Southern Preparatory Academy of Magic (fondly known as South Prep) from 2047 to 2055
Current Occupation: Receptionist and Administrative Assistant at Gringotts
Previous Occupation(s): Never had a job before. Primarily worked as a volunteer in various capacities.
Eye Color: Blue
Hair: Blonde
Height: 5’6”
Marital Status: Divorced
Children: One 16-year-old daughter named Sarah-Lynn
Friends: Needs some! Any takers?
Personality: A pristine example of a Southern Belle. Gracious and compassionate. Bubbly and outgoing. Charming and sweet. Strong and nurturing. Eloquent and well-versed.
History: Riley-Jo grew up in the midst of the patriarchal, traditional culture of the southern United States. A native of the small town of Greenville about 30 minutes north of Montgomery, Alabama, she more associates herself with the slow-paced, proper society in the country. From the young age of three, Riley-Jo competed in beauty pageants all over America and won so many crowns her parents cleared out an entire room in their plantation home and set it up as a shrine to her achievements. No matter the criteria for the pageant, whether it was based on academics, beauty wear, talent, service, swim suit competitions, magical prowess, or being interviewed on stage in front of hundreds of people, Riley-Jo shined light-years brighter than the rest.
Despite her award-winning beauty and talent, Riley-Jo was always a humble person. Her entire life has been devoted to serving others having never before worked for a wage in her entire life. She volunteered at nursing homes, hospitals, orphanages, schools, military bases, animal shelters, and anywhere else that needed her help. She organized fundraisers, benefits, and community clean-up projects. Her favorite part of the pageants she won was being given to opportunity to be a positive role model for other girls and a good example of what it was like to be a good person and live a healthy, fulfilled life. In addition to the pageants and volunteer work she participated in growing up, she was a cheerleader for South Prep's Quidditch team, president of the Student Body, and won several scholastic awards. She graduated wizarding school with perfect marks and impeccable attendance and citizenship records.
In true Southern Belle fashion, she married her high school sweetheart the summer after graduation. Riley-Jo was the perfect southern wife. In addition to attending Wizarding University as a major in Literature and continuing her substantial volunteer work, she ran her husband's home to his high standards of perfection. The house was always spotless, and dinner was always ready to eat minutes after he walked in the door. Guests were always welcome in her home, and no matter who stopped by, Riley-Jo graciously invited them in and offered them a glass of sweet tea and a slice of her grandmammy's famous peach cobbler.
Not long after Riley-Jo and her husband were married, she became pregnant with their first child at the young age of 18. Nine months later, Sarah-Lynn Elizabeth Stout was born, and she was a beautiful, perfect, blonde-headed baby girl. After that, though, things began going downhill. Riley-Jo's husband began working later and later, and he would become angry with her for the slightest things such as not being able to keep up with her perfect appearance due to caring for their daughter along with all of her other responsibilities. Indoctrinated with her Southern Belle beliefs, though, Riley-Jo endured the arguing, taking complete blame for the bad state of her marriage and refusing to listen to that nagging voice in her head telling her to get out.
Riley-Jo continued living in her husband's house, despite the fighting and failed marriage until Sarah-Lynn reached the magic age of ten, at which point she could begin attending South Prep just like her parents had. Once Sarah-Lynn left for school, Riley-Jo moved out of her husband's house and into a small apartment he was renting for her. They still attended social events together, hosted parties together at his home, and Riley-Jo still stayed at the house over the holidays when Sarah-Lynn was home. Though it wasn't ideal, it was working, and it allowed Riley-Jo to continue the life she had built without putting up with the daily fights of living with her husband.
Their separation a secret, Riley-Jo could confide her feelings in no one for fear of ruining her own reputation. It would do nothing to her husband's. The society they lived in would see the ordeal as her own fault for failing to please her husband. After Sarah-Lynn's fifth year at South Prep, though, Riley-Jo returned home with her daughter for the summer only to discover that neither of them were being allowed magical access to the house anymore. Thinking this was odd, Riley-Jo attempted to unlock the doors with her Muggle key to find the locks had been changed. Riley-Jo immediately apparated with her daughter to her husband's office to demand an answer, and the two approached his door just in time to see him sliding a diamond ring onto the left hand of a blonde, leggy girl who couldn't be older than 18.
Long, expensive, and difficult divorce proceedings followed soon after. Riley-Jo was given practically nothing in the settlement other than two years worth of alimony. The judge argued that a woman as bright and talented as Riley-Jo should have no problems supporting herself. However, because Riley-Jo had no job, no independent income, and no suitable place of her own to live, her husband was awarded primary custody of their now almost 15 year old daughter, Sarah-Lynn, against the girl's wishes. In addition to not being able to live with her daughter anymore, Riley-Jo lost all of her friends and the support of her family. Failed marriages were simply inexcusable in their world.
After the divorce and custody proceedings were finalized, Riley-Jo fled her life and everything she'd known to move to England and start over. Immediately, she began searching for a job, and she was ecstatic when she got her first real job as the receptionist and administrative assistant at Gringotts. Her hope is that soon she will be financially self-sufficient so she can go back to court and win her daughter back, bringing her here to England to escape the society in which she's been raised. Riley-Jo wants her daughter to be a strong and independent woman who will never have to fear being incapable of standing on her own two feet.
Model: Candace Cameron Bure